Cystitis or inflammation in the bladder is considered to be a "female" disease. Indeed, ladies are faced with this unpleasant disease much more often, and this is due to the structure of the urinary system. The female urethra is a fairly wide and short channel through which bacteria can easily "reach" the bladder.
But cystitis in men, most often, develops against the background of other inflammatory diseases. For example, pyelonephritis or prostatitis. The fact is that the urethra in men is much longer, so the infection almost never penetrates the bladder in this way. An exception may be medical manipulations, for example, an infection can be introduced with the introduction of a catheter to collect urine. Therefore, today doctors use only disposable and sterile catheters.
You can get cystitis at any age. Among infants, cystitis is more common in boys, this is due to such a common phenomenon as physiological phimosis. But, already starting from the second year of life, girls suffer more from cystitis.
Cystitis in men can occur acutely or in a chronic form. In the acute course of the disease, the frequency of going to the toilet sharply increases, and urination becomes painful, then the pain becomes permanent. Often during this period there is increased weakness, sometimes the temperature rises. The urine becomes cloudy, sometimes in it you can notice impurities of pus or blood.
In the period of acute development of the disease, it is very important to consult a doctor, and not try to help yourself with alternative methods. Otherwise, with a high degree of probability, cystitis will acquire a chronic course, and then it will take a very long time to treat it. In addition, those chronic diseases that led to the onset of cystitis may worsen. Thus, cystitis in men, whose symptoms are described above, needs urgent treatment.
With a disease such as cystitis in men, bed rest is most often prescribed. It is extremely important to follow a suitable diet during the period of the disease, namely, to exclude food that can irritate the walls of the bladder. It is worth refusing from spicy, sour and too salty dishes, you must completely exclude alcoholic drinks, as well as coffee. To prevent the infection from “stagnating” in the bladder, it is recommended to drink a lot. Cranberry vitamin fruit drinks, which have anti-inflammatory effects, are especially useful. The appointment of decoctions of herbs with a diuretic effect is also prescribed. For example, a decoction of bearberry or lingonberry leaves is useful.
In addition, cystitis in men is treated with the use of antibiotics, only a doctor must choose the drug, taking into account the sensitivity of the pathogen that caused the inflammation. The prescribed course of antibacterial therapy must be brought to an end, since an untreated infection almost always leads to the occurrence of recurrent inflammation.
If cystitis acquires a chronic course, then its treatment is to eliminate the causes that provoke inflammation. That is, to recover, it is necessary to eliminate the focus of the primary infection, as well as restore urodynamics, that is, normal outflow of urine. The prognosis for the occurrence of chronic cystitis is less favorable than for the treatment of acute disease.
Prevention of cystitis is the timely treatment of inflammatory diseases, measures aimed at increasing immunity, as well as observing the rules of personal hygiene and avoiding hypothermia. In the event that acute cystitis still develops, you need to show a maximum of patience and perseverance to prevent the transition of the disease into a chronic form.